Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake

by Mrs. Stanley's Bookshelf

Posted on October 29, 2012

If you have read my blog in the past, then you have heard the name Kendare Blake before.  She wrote Anna Dressed in Blood, which I absolutely loved.  Girl of Nightmares is Anna's sequel, and while I wasn't disappointed, I felt that for once, a trilogy would have served Blake better.  I know it seems to be the trend in YA literature to have trilogies pop up everywhere.  It has really become way over used.  However, I think that Blake wrapped up this series too quickly.  SInce I went into the book thinking that it would be a trilogy, I kept expecting it to leave me hanging.  Although I was glad that didn't happen, I felt that Blake wrapped up the ending the way too abruptly.  I'm hoping that she will change her mind and we will get to see Cas again from her somewhere down the road. 

Girl of Nightmares, like the first book, has some seriously creepy moments, but they are fewer and farther between.  The book opens six months after Anna dragged the Obeahman to Hell and saved Cas and his friends.  However, Cas can't move on.  He can't let Anna go.  What's worse is that he begins to see and hear her everywhere.  She is being tortured constantly because she didn't cross over to where she was supposed to go.  She is trapped with the Obeahman and he is still feeding off of her pain and fear.  Cas knows that he can never move on while she is suffering.  He decides that he has to go after her and bring her back.  This decision sparks tension between him and his friends, and starts Cas on a journey that will take him far from home.... in more ways than one.